Sunday 16 October 2011

What are some thematic connections between Tennyson's poems "The Lady of Shallot" and "Ulysses"?

s poems
and are two of his most famous works. These poems share a number of common themes or motifs,
including the following:

  • A sense that the two main characters of
    the poems are isolated from their societies.
  • A setting in a remote and
    mythical past.
  • A sense of melancholy shared by the two main
    characters.
  • A fascination, by both characters, with activity and movement,
    from which they both feel isolated at the moment.
  • A determination to make a
    significant voyage in a boat.
  • A sense that the voyage each character
    undertakes may (and in the...

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